David Banks portrayed the Cyber Leader in BBC TV sci-fi series Doctor Who and wrote the best-selling book Doctor Who –Cybermen, illustrated by veteran sci-fi artist Andrew Skilleter. The ArcHive Tapes: Cybermen is a audio book based on that book, the hypothesised history of the cyber race, written and narrated by the Cyber Leader himself. This is gripping re-telling of the origins and history of the Cybermen, is fully dramatised with vivid effects and original music.

This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Sçavans during the period 1665 to 1700. The theoretical background of the study is Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides linguistic analyses of both translations and source texts, considering in particular process types, the nature of themes, modality and nominalization of processes. The periods looked at are defined in t...

This authoritative guide provides a basis for understanding the emerging technology of ground source heating and cooling. It equips engineers, geologists, architects, planners and regulators with the fundamental skills needed to manipulate the ground's huge capacity to store, supply and receive heat, and to implement technologies (such as heat pumps) to exploit that capacity for space heating and cooling.The author has geared the book towards understanding ground source heating and...

Providing a simple – but not simplistic – introduction to the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) of English, this book serves as a launching pad for the beginning student and a review for the more seasoned linguist. With an introduction to SFG through lexicogrammar and the concept of rankshift, this book is the first introduction to SFG (including Appraisal) with examples exclusively sourced from twenty-first century texts. Written for those learning English and English linguistics as a for...

Fort Whiskey by David Banks   At the tail-end of the Civil War, the United States was in the grip of an internal struggle many thought it would never see the end of.  Moral and political struggles gave way to violence, gunpowder and bloodshed filling the landscape.  The struggle found was mirrored in the life of Willis Reed, a young soldier torn between his duty to his family and to the love of his life.  In his adventure, set in the state of Ark...

A Systemic Functional Grammar of French provides an accessible introduction to systemic functional linguistics through French.This concise introduction to the systemic functional grammar (SFG) framework provides illustrations throughout that highlight how the framework can be used to analyse authentic language texts.This will be of interest to students in alternative linguistic frameworks who wish to acquire a basic understanding of SFG as well as academics in related areas...

The United States is at risk of finding its nuclear weapons capabilities severely weakened by the absence of an available capability to enrich uranium. International legal obligations prohibit the United States from using, for military purposes, foreign-produced enriched uranium or uranium enriched here in this country by foreign-source technology. Efforts to deploy a next-generation American enrichment technology must succeed so that our nation has the ability to address the forthcoming s...

In this entertaining debut novel, young investment bankers struggle to survive a world of sadistic bosses, nervous breakdowns and elevator romances.Every July, a fresh crop of college grads in spiffy new suits arrive at top investment banks—where their big money dreams collide with the realities of office life. In this entertaining debut novel, a stressed-out guy analyst nicknamed Mumbles recounts how he and his cohorts struggle to survive corporate purgatory while ...

"Sizzling…engrossing all the way." — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewHit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late Iraqi dictator's billions. From London to Switzerland, and from Baghdad to the mysterious corners of the just-budding Internet, this spy thriller covers the map to uncover a world of corruption.

She came to Silver Creek Ranch for peace.She never expected to find love in the arms of the local vet.After losing everything in the military—her fiancé, her identity, and her hard-won reputation—Melah Battle was desperate for a fresh start. Silver Creek Ranch offered a quiet escape and a place to rebuild. But peace was hard to hold onto when the past refused to let go.Ridge Harvey, the local veterinarian, wasn't l...

Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, Fourth Edition provides a real-world view of this fast-evolving field, reviewing and analyzing recent innovations and developments. This reference captures the actual work of bankers and professional investors, providing readers with templates for real transactions and insight on how investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms provide services to each other while creating opportunities for corporations and investors to raise ca...

**One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works.**Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV...